Monthly Archives: July 2011

Big Buzzword on Campus: Is “Convergence” a Revolution in Science or Simply Jargon?: Scientific American. Scientific American editors are right to ask if the hot new term “convergence” is just more jargon for the academy or an actual new Zeitgeist, … Continue reading →

Google research chief pushes ‘big data’ : Nature News In 2008, Google retreated from Palimpsest, its project for hosting open science data. Why? I think we are still trying to figure out our role. It didn’t seem like there was … Continue reading →

Coooooool! Waaay to gooo Goooogle! Damon Horowitz is currently in-house philosopher at Google. So says the brief bio-note attached to Horowitz’s unguarded confession in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education: “From Technologist to Philosopher.” For those of you who don’t have … Continue reading →

New Approach Proposed for Science Curriculums – NYTimes.com One of the big goals, the committee said in a 282-page report, is “to ensure that by the end of 12th grade, all students have some appreciation of the beauty and wonder … Continue reading →

Texas Study Raises Questions About Impact of School Discipline – NYTimes.com. Mr. Thompson, of the Council of State Governments, said one of the study’s most important findings was how demographically similar schools disciplined students differently. Although Texas law requires suspension … Continue reading →

In 2009, the Observer (UK newspaper) was leaked a letter to the Queen from an accomplished group of London School of Economics economists explaining some of the factors that resulted in the failure of economists to detect the credit crisis, … Continue reading →

…too much talking and too little doing kills learning. Teaching, real teaching, makes a difference in what happens in kids’ heads. That requires both knowing what’s going on in those heads to find a foundation upon which to build, and … Continue reading →

Daily Kos: Boehner and the “Job Creators” zombie myth”: Time to stake it cold dead.. We at CSID are often wondering about and trying to prepare for the Future of the University. This blog piece is highly political. I felt … Continue reading →

That’s what we need, according to a dialogue published in today’s Chronicle of Higher Education. Highlights include the claim that Stanley Fish is “unrealistic and out of touch with today’s reality” and the claim that “the future is not as … Continue reading →

City puts together panel on drilling | Denton Record Chronicle | News for Denton County, Texas | Special Projects: Gas Well Drilling. CSID Fellow Adam Briggle quoted on the need to form a citizen task force to help in advising … Continue reading →

Today’s Chronicle of Higher Education includes an article on “The Challenge of Putting a Grade on Ethical Learning” that’s well worth reading, if you’ve got access to it. The main issue is the extent to which it is possible to … Continue reading →